I was sad I could not stay for the Q&A as the introduction by the director, Diego Céspedes, and one of the stars, Sirena Matilde, was heartfelt and drew attention to the film as a story about the beauty of trans and queer families.
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Ok. I loved this. I don’t think it will be everyone’s cup of tea but from the first bolshie feminist dance number, I was hooked.
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Maite Alberdi allows us to travel back-and-forth through the life of writer Augusto Góngora. Part of the documentation and reconciliation after Chile’s fascist junta, his own memories are now scattering with Alzheimer’s.
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I love a bit of folk horror and Chilean director Christopher Murray takes us on a slow and compelling journey through colonisation.
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Pinochet’s Chile in 1976 is a time where any opposition to his dictatorship meant quiet disappearance and torture or murder out of the public eye.
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Mariana Di Girolamo is in the centre of every frame in Leonardo Medel’s stylish, unsettling and completely absorbing look at artifice and narcissism.
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Plot be damned, this wacky, fantastical tale carries you along in a multi-coloured street dance, transfixed by the awful beauty that is Ema.
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A documentary about Colonia Dignidad, the German fundamentalist evangelical cult based in a Chilean rural compound and led by subsequently convicted paedophile Paul Schäfer, seems to promise shock and horror at the uncovering of the many atrocities that happened there in the 60s and 70s. Directors Marianne Hougen-Moraga and Estephan Wagner manage instead to craft a contemplative and non-didactic meditation on human nature, trauma and denial.
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I left this movie with my heart full. Sebastián Leilo’s (A Fantastic Women, Disobedience) English adaptation of his 2013 film Gloria feels like a real evocation of what it’s like to be a woman in her middle years. Continue reading
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The sublime Daniela Vega holds the screen from start to end in this delicate exploration of marginalisation and grief. Continue reading
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